Graduate Studies in English
B.A. English, Concentration in Literature, University Honors Program, University of North Texas M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies: English, Women's Studies, Anthropology, University of North Texas
Dissertation Title:
"Spaces of Risk: The Modern Long Poem Revisited"
Research Interests:
20th Century American Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Deconstructionist Feminist Theory
Select Publications:
“El Agua Es la Sangre de la Tierra (water is the blood of the earth)". Finishing Line Press, 2008. (long poem)
"Love Letters: Les Cartes Postales/Postcards: Les Lettres d'Amour". Basilisk Press, 2004. (double poetry chapbook with insert of visual poems)
Select Conference Presentations: “Gwendolyn Brooks and Shifting Modernism," Symposium: Americanist Exchange. Albany, NY, April 13, 2007.
"Tributaries of Meaning: HD Reading her Blameless Physician," Literature After Literature: 21st Century Re-Readings, Albany, NY, April 22, 2007.
"Cut In: Notes on Memory, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound, "College English Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 6-8, 2006.
"Punning in Susan Howe's Articulation of Sound Forms in Time," American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Princeton, NJ, March 24-25, 2006.
Ph.D. Student Profiles
C. Alifair SkebeB.A. English, Concentration in Literature, University Honors Program, University of North Texas M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies: English, Women's Studies, Anthropology, University of North Texas
Dissertation Title:
"Spaces of Risk: The Modern Long Poem Revisited"
Research Interests:
20th Century American Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Deconstructionist Feminist Theory
Select Publications:
“El Agua Es la Sangre de la Tierra (water is the blood of the earth)". Finishing Line Press, 2008. (long poem)
"Love Letters: Les Cartes Postales/Postcards: Les Lettres d'Amour". Basilisk Press, 2004. (double poetry chapbook with insert of visual poems)
Select Conference Presentations: “Gwendolyn Brooks and Shifting Modernism," Symposium: Americanist Exchange. Albany, NY, April 13, 2007.
"Tributaries of Meaning: HD Reading her Blameless Physician," Literature After Literature: 21st Century Re-Readings, Albany, NY, April 22, 2007.
"Cut In: Notes on Memory, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound, "College English Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 6-8, 2006.
"Punning in Susan Howe's Articulation of Sound Forms in Time," American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Princeton, NJ, March 24-25, 2006.
Select Teaching Experience:
ENG 240: Growing Up in America: The American Bildungsroman from Region to Diaspora
ENG 260: Forms of Poetry: Formal to Elliptical Verse
ENG 300: Expository Writing and Oral Discourse